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Public Safety Report from 2018 2018 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report Columbia University Public Safety Contents A Message from the Vice President for Public Safety ................................................. 1 The Clery Act ................................................................................................................. 2 The Department of Public Safety ................................................................................. 4 Reporting Criminal Incidents ........................................................................................ 6 Missing Student Procedures ........................................................................................ 7 Crime Prevention Education and Awareness .............................................................. 8 Fire Safety .................................................................................................................... 11 Fire Safety Policies and Procedures ............................................................................ 12 Access to University Facilities ...................................................................................... 15 Disability Access .......................................................................................................... 16 University Policies Related to Alcohol and Drugs ..................................................... 17 Title IX .......................................................................................................................... 18 Preventing and Responding to Dating Violence, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking ..................................................................................... 21 Workplace Violence Policy .......................................................................................... 33 Campus Crime Statistics .............................................................................................. 34 Appendix 1: Definitions of Reportable Offenses and Terms Used in the Report ......... 38 Appendix 2: University Definition of Sexual Assault ............................................... 40 Appendix 3: New York State Law .............................................................................. 40 Appendix 4: Columbia University Crime Statistics .................................................... 46 Appendix 5: Fire Safety Definitions .......................................................................... 50 Appendix 6: Description of Student Housing Fire Detection and Suppression Systems ............................................. 51 Appendix 7: Additional University, City, State, and Federal Fire Policy Resources ................................................................ 52 Appendix 8: Fire Statistics .......................................................................................... 53 Appendix 9: Columbia University Safe Haven Program ........................................... 59 EMERGENCY NUMBERS CONTACT US Medical Center Campus Department of Public Safety Calls to the emergency numbers listed Please visit, call, or write us! 109 Black Building below are answered 24 hours a day, 7 650 West 168th Street days a week. Morningside Campus New York, NY 10032 Department of Public Safety Tel: 212-305-8100 Morningside Campus 111 Low Library, Mail Code 4301 Fax: 212-305-5434 212-854-5555 535 West 116th Street Campus phones: x4-5555 New York, NY 10027 Email: [email protected] Tel: 212-854-2797 Manhattanville Campus Fax: 212-932-0798 Website: publicsafety.columbia.edu 212-853-3333 Campus phones: x3-3333 Facebook: Facebook.com/cu/publicsafety Manhattanville Campus Department of Public Safety Medical Center Campus Department of Public Safety Opera- 212-305-7979 tions Center Campus phones: 305-7979 3270 Broadway New York, NY 10027 212-853-3301 Cover photo by Sayed Almohri. Photos of security officers by Ricardo Morales. All other photos by Elvin Christian, unless otherwise noted. A Message from the Vice President for Public Safety I am pleased to present the 2018 Columbia University Department of Public Safety (DPS) Annual Security and Fire Safety Report. This report is prepared by Public Safety in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act and is intended to disseminate important information to the University community. Crime statistics include those reported to local police, DPS, and designated campus officials. With this publication, it is our intent to communicate not only mandatory information, such as crime statistics and fire safety data, but also to inform current students and employees and assist prospective students and their families in the decision- making process of selecting a college or university by describing the many ways in which we strive to keep this community safe. Our efforts include high-visibility patrols, responding to and investigating on and off- campus incidents, providing guard services at a myriad of University events, and increasing photo by Eileen Barroso student and employee vigilance through crime prevention seminars, workshops, and other activities. The Department of Public Safety is committed to working with the community to GUIDE TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANNUAL SECURITY achieve our shared goal: a safe, welcoming campus environment. In a Facilities and Opera- AND FIRE SAFETY REPORT tions Client Survey covering the 2017–2018 Academic Year, 3,358 responses were received This report is intended to provide from the undergraduate students, graduate and professional students, faculty, and staff. valuable information regarding Ninety-five percent of the respondents agreed they felt safe on campus. Ninety-two percent procedures the University has developed in partnership with agreed that campus security and safety policies were accessible and understandable. members of the community to maintain a safe campus environment. We have achieved this honor by engaging everyone in the business of public safety. Sidebars contain contact We value our partnership with the community, and as we work to make the Columbia information for various directors of community safe, we realize our success ultimately depends upon the constructive the Department of Public Safety, crime and fire prevention tips, and relationships we have built with our neighbors. We welcome and value your input and Columbia University Public Safety in ask for your support. In all of our efforts, we are guided by our values of “Pride, the media, as well as other important information. To find out more about Professionalism, and Service.” any information in this document or At Columbia University, the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff are our about the Department, please call us or visit the Columbia University top priorities. Columbia’s campuses and the surrounding areas are safe and have an Department of Public Safety website extremely low crime rate for an urban university. We take great pride in this fact and in all at publicsafety.columbia.edu. of our public service accomplishments. James F. McShane, Vice President Columbia University Department of Public Safety The Clery Act The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, more commonly known as the Clery Act, requires colleges and universities to: publish an annual report every year by October 1 that contains three years of campus crime and fire safety statistics and certain campus security policy statements; disclose crime statistics for the campus, public areas immediately adjacent to or running through the campus, and certain noncampus facilities and remote classrooms. The statistics must be gathered from campus police or security, local law enforcement, and other University officials who have “significant responsibility for student and campus activities”; provide “timely warning” notices of those crimes that have occurred and pose an ongoing “threat to students and employees”; issue an emergency notification, upon the confirmation of a significant emergency or dangerous situation involving an immediate threat to the health or safety of students or employees occurring on campus; disclose in a public crime log “any crime that occurred on campus . or within the patrol jurisdiction of the campus police or the campus security department and is reported to the campus police or security department”; and maintain in a public fire log a record of any fire that occurred in an on-campus student housing facility. The University complies with the Clery Act, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and other applicable laws. The Clery Act provides protection from retaliation to students, staff, and faculty members who report Clery crimes or who exercise any other rights under the Clery Act. The Columbia University Department of Public Safety engages in a vigorous program DID YOU KNOW? designed not only to meet but to exceed these requirements. This program consists of: Register now for text message alerts! TIMELY WARNING NOTICES: CAMPUS SAFETY ALERTS AND CRIME ALERTS Timely Warnings, called “Crime Alerts,” are provided to enhance the safety of the STUDENTS: Simply log in to Student community by giving students, faculty, and staff notification of crimes that occur on or Services Online nearby campus property and are considered by the Department of Public Safety to (https://ssol.columbia.edu/), click on “Text Message Enrollment,” present a serious or continuing threat to students and employees. These Crime Alerts and add your cell
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